Everybody has had the experience of walking into a smoke-filled room. The coughing and smarting of the eyes that can result is leading many people to ask whether this kind of ‘passive’ smoking may produce the same sort of serious diseases as those seen in smokers themselves. This possibility has been examined in a number [...]

Sometimes life changes that precede an illness are what might normally be identified as positive changes. Bob Gilley, thirty-nine years old when he received his cancer diagnosis, is a good example of how individual the nature of a person’s response to stress is. When Stephanie first began working with Bob to explore his own emotional [...]

The statistics on cancer do not make for pleasant reading, but if we are to take a cool and objective look at this disease, we had better confront them. Cancer intrudes on many individual lives and has a major impact on the national life of many countries. One in three people will develop a cancer [...]

Some methods of cancer treatment such as meditation and prayer utilise processes about which very little is known. An exceptional person may be able to rid their garden of weeds by meditating or praying over it. Equally rarely, someone may succeed in ridding their body of cancer by these methods. I don’t doubt that the [...]

You will remember from the last chapter that the crucial step in diagnosis of cancer, is to get a sample of the suspicious area for examination under the microscope. This is also true for people with probable secondary deposits and unknown primary. Examination of such a sample is usually necessary to confirm the diagnosis of [...]

Fibre Fibre is a much-needed component in the human diet. It is extremely useful in preventing disturbances of the intestine and digestive system, including cancer of the colon, rectum and diverticulitis or ulcerative colitis. With the advent of the low fibre Westernised diet, cancer of the colon has become one of the biggest killers amongst [...]

General Tips If you are feeling nauseous try to blend any of the foods featured in the following diet in a food processor or blender and then drink hot or cold. It is important to keep energy and nutrition levels high while undergoing chemotherapy and radiation therapy, as nutrients are required in large amounts by [...]

A person’s mood and attitude has a tremendous bearing on the function of their immune system. It has now been significantly proven that the emotions of anxiety and chronic stress negatively affect the function of our immune system and lower our body’s immune resistance, leaving it open to developing cancer. Other negative emotions such as [...]

Radiation Therapy Explained Radiation therapy, also known as radiotherapy, is a widely used method of orthodox cancer treatment. It is commonly employed as a modern treatment for persons afflicted with cancer, in an attempt to kill the malignant tissue that is involved with cancer. It can be used singularly, as the primary method of treatment, [...]

Q. Will I definitely lose my hair? A. NO. Patients do not always lose their hair. It depends on the amount of chemotherapy drugs the doctors choose to use, the type of drugs being used and the length of the treatment. Chemotherapy affects each person differently. There are no set rules as to who will [...]